Cape Horn Gold Diggings and the Cape Horn region
A narrative recounts the lure and peril of placer gold between Cape Horn and the Magellan Strait. It chronicles early discoveries in Tierra del Fuego, the 1886 East Coast mine camp, and Don Gregorio Ibanez’s shipwreck tale. The piece notes harsh gales, rugged terrain, hostile terrain, and the allure of wealth tempered by danger for the lone, young prospector seeking experience over riches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Spears
Cape Horn
Strait of Magellan
Australia
California
Tierra del Fuego
Punta Arenas
Magellan
San Francisco
Virginia City
Nevada
Don Gregorio Ibanez
Cape Virgin
Patagonia
Don Gregorio
United States
el Paramo
Popper
Buenos Ayres
Spain and Cuba Home Rule Debate Cited by Cabinet Minister
WashingtonCorrespondent cites a Chicago Times Herald report in which a Cleveland cabinet minister dismisses Spain's patience and argues Cuba will gain home rule only through force. He mocks Spain, predicts evolution fails, and claims Cuba needs the sword to secure autonomy.
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Cleveland
Spain
Cuba
Columbus
America
Washington Cor
Chicago Times-Herald
Paradox Personified Mahone's Contrasting Life Echoed
The Boston Herald calls William Mahone a paradoxical figure of stark contrasts. He rose from aristocracy to wealth in Virginia while slipping into bankruptcy, becoming both beloved and detested as his fortunes shifted.
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William Mahone
Virginia
Boston Herald
Chicago Police Court Fines Man Ten Dollars for Sleeping in Church
A Chicago police court fined a man ten dollars for sleeping in a church, a move the New York Journal labels as municipal revenue extraordinary and unjust amid public fatigue with city enforcement practices.
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Chicago
New York Journal
The Heart of the Matter on Prize Fighting
The Washington Star argues editors should follow Governors Culberson and precedent to curb prize fighting, suggesting the practice would otherwise fade as an art.
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Culberson
Washington Star
Song of the Green Ferns and Love in Chicago
A fragment from the Chicago Record poems describes longing and ardor. The speaker compares an enamored heart to an oriole’s fiery sweep and questions whether a calm mind holds dry tinder for a rekindled flame.
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Chicago
Carnival of Crime Sparks Late Night Police Questions
A wave of robberies and a deranged Union League member trigger a citywide scare. Mme Melba is reported robbed of under $100 after stowing jewels in a bank. eight men are robbed on Kinzie and Clark streets. 300 arrests in 24 hours. D. Merwin, a Union League member, barricades his home and fires on passersby, later subdued with sulphur fumes.
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Ft Rqui
Mme. Melba
First National Bank
Clark Street
Jacobs’ Clark Street
D. & Merwin
Union Toy Club
Merwin
Cottage Grove Avenue
New York World
Couple aims to wed after 80 day grease sales trek
Albert Albrech and Ora Rodenet plan an 80 day trip to Atlanta selling a grease eradicator. They forecast selling 80 boxes daily to earn 100 dollars from the manufacturer to start a home life, hoping to reduce unhappy marriages through a pre marriage test.
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Albert Albrech
Ora Rodenet
Albert
Ora
Atlanta
Chicago Times-Herald
The Boy Father to the Man
The small boy is not the only person who is persuaded to be on his best behavior by the assurance that he may someday be president of the United States. Some of the country's most prominent statesmen are now in the same position.
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United States
Washington Star
Health official notes diphtheria antitoxin cuts deaths
President Wilson of the health board reports to the mayor that diphtheria antitoxine use in New York City has reduced the diphtheria and croup death rate by nearly 44 percent.
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Wilson
The
Health Board
New York City
Croup
Wilson's Life Story Survives Decades of Amnesia
Rail Indiana area reports J B Wilson long believed dead by family for 28 years. He left Brazil for Kansas then Indian Territory where a camp raid by Indians left him unconscious and head wounds. Government troops treated him, memory later returned after years in Florida. Mrs Wilson sought pension, found he was alive and drawing in Florida.
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Florida
Brazil
Wilson
Will Burst a Mountain Near Long Cove Quarry
The Pittsburg Dispatch reports an planned explosion on the Maine coast near Long Cove to collapse 100,000 tons of granite. Laborers Andrew Johnson and Henry Hendrickson have drilled a tunnel into the granite wall 56 feet long, with two hermetically sealed caverns holding eight tons each. Wires will trigger the blast, affecting Booth Bros Hurricane Isle Granite and nearby residents.
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Maine
State Point
Long Cove
Knox County
Andrew Johnson
Henry Hendrickson
Booth Bros
Hurricane Isle Granite Company
Pittsburg
Wild Man Found in Sullivan County Logs Shack
Ira Souis and a friend, from Livingston Manor, encountered a rough man living in a rock cleft ten miles away. After a desperate struggle he was bound and brought before Justice of the Peace McGrath. The man, who spoke only grunts and mixed German and English, was committed to the county house.
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Ira Souis
Livingston Manor
Sullivan County
Justice of the Peace
McGrath
Philadelphia Press
Crowning act in horse degradation observed in Oregon
An Oregon paper cites a Dallas man who keeps a horse and a bicycle as his latest passion. He neglects the horse, chains it to a bicycle by a long halter, and rides three to four miles daily with the horse trailing behind, the animal growing fat and idle.
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Oregon
Dallas
Evansville Tribune Calls for Short Campaigns
The Evansville Tribune argues campaigns of any kind should be brief, noting the Corbett-Fitzsimmons race has dragged on for months and tired the public. It urges shortening all campaigns in the future.
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Evansville Tribune
Liberty Bell Visits Atlanta Draws Widespread Praise
Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell arrives in Atlanta amid warm civic welcome. The city honors the relic of Revolution with a holiday atmosphere and expressions of gratitude to Philadelphian hosts. News outlets from Boston and Chicago note the bell’s enduring influence and patriotic resonance across the nation.
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Philadelphia
Atlanta
Atlanta Journal
Dixie
Boston Herald
Liberty
Chicago
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Goldfields
Colorado
Mojave Desert
Stoke
Uncle Sam
Carnival OF Crime
Melba
Union League
Liberty Bell
Concord
Amesbury
Michigan
Canada
W. A. Hayd Maynard
Mass
Boynton
Highland
S. R. Burroughs
J. S. Hoar
West Acton
C. Keith
Concord Junction
Carpetinc
Touttlejones &Wetherbee
South Acton, Mass
Drs
DR. Stetson
John J. Flannery
Bedford
Boston
H.P
James Mullin
Maynard, Mass
H. S. Hapgood
Stow
Anterprise
Horace Tuttle
W. A.cunningham
Walden Street
Concord Mass
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